Village of the Falls

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having access to the deficiency data for this facility, it ended up being difficult to fully assess it in the inspections category.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. Short-term care grades are critical for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Most of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This place averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's worst area is long-term care, which is the last category we assessed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.82353 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.